Minister
of Justice Tudorel Toader said that terminating the protocols of the
Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) with the prosecution authorities
is not enough, but that they should also be declassified in order to
shed light on the prosecutors' collaboration with intelligence
services.

"As
a principle, intelligence services are structures of the rule of law
state. Their powers complement other state competencies. I mean we
cannot deny the public utility of these services, but we cannot allow
them to interfere with the judicial activities of criminal
prosecution or the trial, either. (...) The public knowledge is that
these are different protocols with different institutions, so if we
take a step, let's carry the job through, not just terminate the
protocol with one institution and keep another three or four in
force. On the other hand, terminating them is not enough (...) this
means they are no longer in force, that they are no longer
applicable. But I think it would be more interesting for us to be
able to see them, to declassify them for us to know how these
structures operated, how the collaboration worked," Tudorel
Toader told private TV broadcaster Antena 3.

Asked
if will request the General Prosecution Office, the National
Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) and the Directorate for
Investigating Organised Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) to reassess
their protocols with SRI, Tudorel Toader said that, according to his
understanding, these protocols are no longer in force.

"As
far as I understood from the Prosecutor General, he has already
terminated them, they are already no longer in force. I was referring
to the next step, of gaining insight into what has been but is no
longer in force. (...) I won't keep such protocols, such
collaborations other than within the strict limits of lega l
competencies," concluded JusMin Tudorel Toader.